Button-locator.



No. 679,443. Patented Iuly 30, |90l. J. H. VINTDN.

BUTTON LOCATOR.

(Applicanon led Jan. 19, 1901.)

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UivrTnn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN II. VINTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT AMORY, OF BAR HARBOR, MAINE.

BUTTON-LOCATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 679,443, dated July 30, 1901.

Application filed January 19, 1901l Serial No. 43,925. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN H. VINTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Button-Locators, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to a button-locator7 for use in connection with a tool for attaching buttons to garments by wire fasteners, for which I have made two separate applications for Letters Patent of the United States of even date herewith, and has for its object to place a button in the correct position in said tools with the holes in said button registering with the legs of awire fastener held in said tool, so that when the said fastener is forced through the fabric to which it is desired to attach the said button the legs of said fastener will pass through the holes in said button and clench against the clenching-die in said tool, all as specifically set forth -in the applications hereinbefore referred to.

The invention consists in a carrier-slide, means for attaching a button thereto, and means for guiding said slide to locate said button in `proper relation to the working parts of a tool for attaching buttons to garments by wire fasteners and also to locate said button in proper relation to a fastener held by said tool preparatory to inserting the legs of said fastener in a fabric and through the holes in said button.

The invention further consists in the coinbination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claim thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my improved button-locator. Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3 3, Fig. l. Fig. a is a plan view of the button which it is desired to locate in the attaching-tool. Fig. 5 is a section on line 5 5, Fig. LL. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of a portion of one jaw of said attaching-tool with the button-holder thereon. Fig. 7 is a central vertical section through the jaw and button-holder shown in Fig. 6 with the clenching-die shown in elevation. Fig. 8 is an underneath plan of the button-holder.

Fig. 9 is a detail side and end elevation of the clenching-die. Fig. l0 is a perspective view of the wire fastener.

Like characters refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 22 is a portion of one of the jaws of my improved tool for attaching buttons to garments by wire fasteners. The clenchingdie 25, Fig. 9, consists of a cylindrical block of steel, having a head portion 27 and a shank portion 28. The head portion 27 of said die is convexly curved upon the under side thereof and has a flange 29, which is formed to fit in a chamber 30 in the spring-pressed button-holder 3l. The shank 28 is encircled by a spiral spring 32, one end of which bears against the flange 29 and the other against the shoulder 33 in said button-holder. The button-holder 3l is adapted to slide lengthwise upon the shank of the clenching-die 25 in a direction at right angles to the face of said die, and is prevented from turning on said shank, and thus changing its location with relation thereto in a plane par allel to the face thereof, by a tongue 79 upon the collar 34, which projects into and fits a notch 8O on the spring-pressed button-holder 3l. lt will be seen that the action of the spring 32 is to hold the button-holder 3l up against the collar 34:, said collar being pinned to the die-shank 28 and with its upper face resting against the under side of the jaw 22. The die-shank 28 is shouldered at 35, and said shoulder rests against the under side of the jaw 22. In the under face of the head portion 27 of the clenching-die 25 are two grooves 36, parallel to each other and standingat forty-five degrees to the longitudinal median line a of the tool, said grooves being for the purpose of turning over and clenching the legs of the fastener, as hereinafter described. This locating of the button is attained by the use of my improved button-locator 49. Said button-locator has a handle 50 and a carrier-slide 5l. Said carrier-slide 5l has a circular depression 52 therein to receive the button 42, and two pins 53 53, arranged to enter diagonally opposite holes 48 4:8 in said button. The carrier-slide 5l has two sides 54E 54E, parallel to each other ICO throughouta portion of the length thereof and converging at the forward end of said slide toward a point, the parallel sides being located at a distance apart equal to the distance between the parallel side walls 43 in the button-holder 31 and less than the diameter of said circular depression, so that the perimeter of said depression intersects said sides 54 and is cut away by them, so as to allow the rim of a button placed in said depression to project beyond said sides.

To place the button 42 in the button-hold er 3l and in the correct location therein, with the holes 47 48 located in proper relation to the die-grooves 36 and to the legs of the fastener 56, held by an appropriate fastenerholder on the other jaw of said attaching-tool, said button is first placed by hand in the depression 52 in the button-locator,with the pins 53 projecting through two diagonally opposite holes 4S 48 in said button. The button 42 isthen carried forward by the locator 49, with l the rim 45 projecting beyond the sides 54 of said carrier-slide and into the grooves 44, said parallel sides 54 of the carrier 51 sliding between and guided by the parallel side walls 43 of the button-holder 3l until the rim 45 of the button abuts against the pins 46. The converging portions of the sides of the carrierslide at the forward end thereof, hereinbefore set forth, serve to help the operator to insert the parallel sides of the carrier 51 between the parallel side walls 43 ot` the button-holder 31. As the button is pushed forward in the slot 41, with the rim 45 thereof guided in the grooves 44, said rim comes in contact with -the lower rounded face portion 27 of the die 25 and forces said button-holder downwardly against. the action of the spring When the rim 45 has passed the head 27, the spring 32 forces the button-holder upwardly, and the lower rounded face portion 27 of the die enters the depression in the head of the button, and the spring-pressed button-holder 31 holds said button in a proper position, with the holes therein located to register with the legs of the fastener, when said fastener is forced through the material and into said holes. The buttonlocator 49 is now withdrawn by lowering nthe same until the pins 53 are clear of the button 42 and the sides 54 are withdrawn from contact 'with' the side walls 43 of the button-holder 31;

It will be seen that the depression 52 in the upper face of the carrier-slide 51 :is formed to receive the back face of a button placed in said depression and is also formed to partially encircle therrim of said button, and thus to prevent the button from tipping upon the upper face of the carrier-slide when being inserted in the grooves 44, the rim 45 of the button fitting the recess sufficiently well to form a slight friction and prevent said button from tipping out of a horizontal position,

thus always holding the upper fac-e of the button in a plane parallel to the upper face of the carrier-slide 51. This isa particularly desirable feature in a button-locator in which buttons are often used having a back face rounded upon the arc of a circle at ille central portion thereof instead of being flat, as shown in the drawings. It will be understood, therefore, that the function of the recess in the carrier-slide is io prevent the button from sliding lengthwise thereofand also to prevent it from tipping out of a horizontal position, while the function of the pins 53 is to locate the holes of the button in a certain fixed relation to the carrier-slide, preventing said button from rotating in the recess or depression 52.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A button-locator comprising a carrier-slide having two parallel sides, a depression in one face of said carrier-slide formed to receive the back face of a button and to partially encircle the rim of said button, and a pin fast to said slide and located in said depression at one side of the center of said depression and arranged to enter a hole in a button held in said recess, substantially as described for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOI-IN H. VINTON. 

